On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 10:58:56AM +0200, Jan Wagner wrote: > # LANG=C aptitude upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done > Building tag database... Done > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) ... > Running depmod. > Finding valid ramdisk creators. > Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. > Failed to symbolic-link boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 to initrd.img. > dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17 > Errors were encountered while processing: > linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > A package failed to install. Trying to recover: > Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) ... > Running depmod. > Finding valid ramdisk creators. > Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. > Failed to symbolic-link boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 to initrd.img. > dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17 > Errors were encountered while processing: > linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 > # ls -la / | grep 2.6. > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2007-03-23 07:12 initrd.img -> > initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2006-07-05 14:20 initrd.img.old -> > boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-3-686-smp > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-03-23 07:12 vmlinuz -> > vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2006-07-05 14:20 vmlinuz.old -> > boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-686-smp > > "rm /initrd.img /vmlinuz" fixed it for me, but it seems no general solution. >
never saw that error, please try to reprduce: apt-get --reinstall install linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

